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Turbo diesel Toyota. Not legal in America though. Thanks government. Not to get overly political here but a functional capitalism would bring the best available products to the market for consumers because competition would drive companies to do so. What we have is functioning, but it’s not capitalism.
Hard to say without seeing it in person, but it looks pretty analog and made to last. The hydraulic leveling system is pretty neat.
https://youtu.be/Vuhoz-0tzi0?si=C_uHqhhEytKp0OxC
I couldn’t get the video to embed but this one is a 2.8 diesel. Not sure if it’s an inline, but that would be my preference. In-line engines always seem to make more sense to me anyways.
Do any of you Aussies see these things around?
America’s $10k Kei Trucks are coming, but what will they look like?
Little trucks like that are going to be legal in America.
I’ve seen some stuff like that on the internet lately. 10k isn’t going to get you much more than a glorified golf cart though.
I’d be fine with a 30-40k truck thats actually built to last/built not to break at 100k, and engineered to be rebuilt over and over again. Simple modular designs with proven tech.
Price is one thing but the standards for impact ratings, forcing of overly complicated electronic equipment in every vehicle, and epa shit, is the real killer of long lasting vehicles in America.
SXS/utvs are 30k, how is a new kei truck going to be 10? The 30 year old RHD kei trucks from Japan go for $7-10k around here…
I had a LHD daihatsu hijet a couple years ago. They were sold in the US for golf courses and whatnot, stipulation being not road legal. Got it for a couple grand. Taught my 7 seven year old at the time how to drive a stick. It was fun.
The Shop
DeCal Works Huge Plastic Inventory of UFO and Polisport kits.
Free shipping: VITALMX
Luxon 4-Post Bar Mounts
$189.95 - $239.95
I want one!!!!
There’s alllllll sorts of vehicles from utes to suvs that fit the bill and are already sold on this continent.
Example:
How is a V8 turbo diesel built on a Land Cruiser considered a "mini" truck? No, it's not the size of a Tundra or F150, but it sure as hell ain't mini.
I would agree v8 is too much. Little 4cyl turbo would do just fine with a good transmission.
It’s definitely a completely different body and chassis. The name is the same, but that’s it’s. That thing is nothing like the pos Land Cruiser they sell in America. It’s built on a totally different platform.
It’s the Land Cruiser 70 series here in OZ and they’re bloody expensive. All the tradies drive them.
Tight white short-shorts, a wife beater shirt and that funny hat…made from Roo…maybe?
And keys to the Footie Club…
In Waga Waga! 🤣
Fair-a-Dinkum?!
I just want something the government can’t shut off with the push of a button. Biden admin pushed through a law that requires manufacturers to put a killswitch in every vehicle starting in 26 or maybe 27. Congress just voted again 2 days ago to keep this in place. The car itself will monitor your driving, and if “it” thinks you’re drunk, “it” will shut itself down and I think will actually lock you in the car so you can’t run off. And of course this mechanism will allow the government to disable your vehicle too.
Anyone else hear about this?
Close but it’s a wife basher and stubby shorts with double pluggers. Fair-dinkum. I raced junior state titles at Wagga Wagga in ‘99.😂
Real Aussies!💪🏼
Yep they are freaking expensive but as already stated tradies and farmers cant get enough of them, the v8 has been dropped and it is now just the 2.8, I have a next gen Ford ranger with the 2.0 bi turbo space cab and it is a very nice thing plus reasonable off road. Ford just released their version of the Super Duty in the next gen body and it has the goods, that will be my next vehicle once my lease runs out. Wont be cheap but very nice for what I use mine for.
Jesus what an ugly fucking color! 🤣
For all the mandated "safety" features in modern vehicles, such as backup cameras, lane assist, etc, we should see a gigantic drop in the number and rate of automotive fatalities in the last 10 years or so, right? I mean, if we're going to get $100k pickup trucks and SUVs we should see a large benefit for our cost, or it wouldn't be worth it, right? Well, you can probably see where I'm gong with this, for our loss of affordable and practical vehicles we have gotten little to no change in fatality rates in the last 30 years or so, so what was all of this garbage for anyways? Well, now you've got a fleet of vehicles that can OVERRIDE driver input based on what the computer sees fit, or more sinisterly what the computer is told to do from an outside source. People have already been killed by intelligence agencies taking remote control of their vehicle and causing it to crash, and now as smog laws become more strict and regulations get tighter more and more vehicles are equipped with this technology straight from the factory.
So there is your reason why we can't have cheap, reliable, simple, analog vehicles in the US anymore. The age old trick of scaring people into compliance under the guise of safety worked yet again, and now we have nothing but bloated, hackable rolling bricks for inflated prices. Call me a conspiracy theorist all you want but I don't believe any of these regulations were put in place for safety, if they were effective the data would show it and it does not.
Hanging on to this one.
I've been offered way more than twice what I paid for it over 10yrs ago.
Pit Row
Hard to argue with you.
GF recently rented an SUV for short time.
It had, anti tailgate brakes that decided to automatically brake (and actually hindered fully backing up to a closed garage door), lane drift warnings that overrode the wheel, and those stupid lights in the side mirrors telling you what you should already be seeingif you were paying attention like you're supposed to.
And then there's the damn tesla auto driving cars, allowing you to literally be asleep at the wheel.
2010 Nissan Frontier
345,000 and counting. Best and most reliable vehicle I’ve ever owned. Perfect, economical weekly moto hauler.
Diesel mini trucks aren't outlawed in the USA, they don't sell enough for them to be sold here. I think teamgreen had the GM version Colorado/Canyon several years ago. If the public would buy them they'd be here.
I think the same thing is currently happening with the half ton diesels. Ford, Dodge, and GM all had one, GM is the last man standing.
That’s because the diesel trucks sold in America are choked out over-complicated electronic pieces of shit.
They’re not outlawing diesels in America, that would cause too much pushback, they’re just regulating them into the ground.
Anyways what’s the point in buying diesel when the computer will be throwing so many codes by 120k that you won’t even get it through emissions and the body and chassis will be nothing but rust by 200k
There's pretty easy ways to get around all of that junk, you just gotta know your way around your garage. If I ever get my work contract finished my plan is to get a low mileage f-150 diesel and immediately derestrict it. I hear 260hp and 500ft lbs is pretty doable.
Sure, but you’re paying ALOT of extra money for that junk. And now you got to spend more money to get rid of that junk and if you do, you void your warranty.
And if you manage to get around all that, the thing is still going to rot out on ya cuz the quality of metal is shit these days in new vehicles.
They’re just built to fail after x amount of time/miles, and there’s no getting around that these days.
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I didn’t know they made f150 diesels. I always thought it be nice to get an old 3/4 ton square body ford or dodge from the early-mid 90’s and restore it to perfection, rather than buy new. I want a truck with a bench seat up front.
I’ve been toying around the idea of getting an earlier model year 2.8 dmax in either the canyon or colorado as a daily driver and weekend bike hauler. Deleting it seems to be a rather straight forward effort, albeit expensive, but would open that little engine up a ton. The earlier years still had full sized beds in the back.
Emissions? Dont got no stinkin' emissions......
#rollin-coal-legal
Kei vehicles are fun. I imported 2 a couple of years ago. Both are manual transmission, 4WD, and have AC. Great for around town and not any more dangerous than riding a motorcycle. Top speed is maybe 55 mph. I wouldn’t mind having a more modern one.
That ZR2 diesel was superb. The mlg was unbelievable. Many of the smaller diesels got scooped up in the after-math dirty-diesel scandal…brought about by thise Ass Holes at VW!🤣…and…in some cases the OEMs just didn’t want the hassle and had some very efficient gas turbos in the wings.
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